Yearly Archives: 2013

Nuclear figure Abdul Qadeer Khan plans hospital

LAHORE, Aug 22,2013 (Waqar Gillani / UPI Next) -- Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist who fell into disfavor after confessing to passing...

Handicrafts industry struggling to survive

CHOLISTAN, Aug 14, 2013 (Imran Mehr  / UPI Next) -- Ghulan Fareed spins camel hair on a hand loom six days a week to...

Government to Hold Conference on Taliban Talks

ISLAMABAD, Aug 13,2013 (Aamir Saeed / UPI Next) -- Pakistan's new government will convene an all-parties conference this month to draw up a formal...

Two provinces object to federal power bill plan

KARACHI, Aug 8,2013 (Manzoor Chandio / UPI Next) -- Two Pakistani provinces have raised strong objections to a provision in a federal government plan...

Bin Laden Town

ISLAMABAD,  Aug 7,2013 (Obaid Khan / UPI Next) -- Pakistanis are greeting with criticism and skepticism an official probe that found that Pakistani authorities'...

Leaders are nervous after killings of lawmakers

KARACHI, Aug. 6,2013 (Zafar Ahmed Khan / UPI Next) -- The targeted killing of three lawmakers just weeks after Pakistan's May 11 parliamentary elections...

Significant malnutrition problems

KARACHI, Aug 4,2013 (Moniza Inam / UPI Next) -- Moosa Khan, a low-level worker in Karachi's local government, is one face of Pakistan's significant...

Peoples Party to boycott presidential election

LAHORE, July 28,2013 (Sumeera Riaz / UPI Next) -- The Pakistan Peoples Party, which governed Pakistan before May's elections, said Friday it would boycott...

Execution moratorium unlikely to be reinstated

KARACHI, July 25,2013 (Manzoor Chandio / UPI Next) -- The fate of thousands of prisoners on death row in Pakistan is likely to be...

Popularity of Western fashion

KARACHI, July 24,2013 (Lubna Jerar Naqvi / UPI Next) -- Western fashion is making inroads in Pakistan, sparking disapproval from conservatives who at the...

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